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In Judaism, the three indispensable steps of teshuva (repentance) are 1. Expressing regret 2. Confessing the sin 3. Committing to not repeat the sin When I see all three steps, out of Musk, I'll think about it. I'm not holding my breath.

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Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June

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There is a ton of cognitive dissonance between 1. Where the fuck have you been this whole time? - and - 2. Join us! We need all the help we can get. Both are reasonable responses: 1 vents frustration, but 2 is actually helpful. It's OK to do some 1 in private, but in public we've got be 2.

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I do not want Gazans to be burned alive. I do not want Jewish people to be set on fire. I do not want these things for any human being. This is not a difficult position to hold or believe.

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Ukraine carried out this strike without Zelenskyy putting in his family group chat? Is he even clean on opsec?

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Partisan officials censoring government scientists from explaining to the public about the effects of public policy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

The right to have an opinion about any goddamn political issue you want to is not just a fundamental part of being a human being but it’s also directly protected by the first amendment. In order to engage in political speech you have to have something to say.

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Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 8 hours ago • 91 comments

like this shit sucks so fuckin bad lol. two things can exist! you are a whole entire adult! an extremely reasonable way to read this is that diaspora jews can expect hate violence until the government of israel, over which they have no control, changes israel's behavior as a state!

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Who said this isn't coded as anti-Semitic? "Underneath all this is a very powerful network, a globalist network, who are very well funded..." is pretty much the ur-text of antisemitism. Straight out of the Protocols.

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If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

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the president accusing joe biden of being a clone decanted in 2020 to assume the presidency is not going to make the news tomorrow

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San Antonio is a very cool place

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Yes and what people don’t realize is they are saying “ignore massive structural problems and instead blame individuals”

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Will there be as much outrage in the press about Ernst implicitly saying yeah, don't worry about Medicaid killing people, in a cemetery, as there was about Biden visiting the graves of his first wife and his son & daughter in a cemetery?

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Electorally, my guess is the video doesn't hurt Ernst all that much. We're still more than a year and a half out from the election, more than enough time for voters to forget. OTOH if she's foolish enough to do something similar next fall the story might be different. Iowa isn't that red.

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1/2 This is worth unpacking a bit. Ernst is mocking and expressing contempt for people who are concerned about losing health care coverage. But when a politician says something on camera, you always have to consider who the intended audience is. And 99% of the time, it's the voters.

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Contempt charges, come on

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Some did, intentionally. Others were prepared to vote for whoever had an R next to their name. I’m sure some accepted Trump’s lies about his intentions, laundered by a compliant media. I’d be interested in polling which told us how big each group is.

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something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Words cannot describe how bad this is.

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This would be horrible. Pell grants helped me make it through my undergraduate education. And so many other students.

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Years ago, I made the observation that Mason Rudolph gave off a lot of Covington Catholic teen vibes during this altercation with Miles Garrett, and it’s nice to be proven right about stuff.

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A good chunk of the nation now lives in states where they cannot sue the government for violating their voting rights. This is very bad.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Once again, it’s important to remember that the presidential budget is not the actual budget. Nothing’s final until Congress passes appropriations bills. Call your member - and call again in October when they’ll be voting on these bills

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Interesting piece on the Nazi junkie, strung out on a huge array of drugs seemingly at all times, who effectively destroyed huge sectors of the US government and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people so far. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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It's curious that almost no one is still talking about gas prices, grocery prices, housing prices, Suffering From Inflation™️, or any of the other Narratives that Could Not Fail (They Could Only Be Failed) when Joe Biden was president. It all just disappeared from The Discourse.

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Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun

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Motherfucker threw Nazi salutes on national television. As in plural. There's no coming back from that. If he spends $200 billion dollars ending homelessness and curing cancer he'll be the Nazi who tried to buy his reputation back by ending homelessness and curing cancer.